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Hanover plant has furnished hig grad plaster and cement products for a quarter-century.

Hanover Plant Has Furnished High Grade Plaster and Cement
Quarter-Century
Three Forks Portland Cement Company's Local Plant Has Many
Possible Expansion of its Operations
DEMOCRAT NEWS-DEC. 1940
Products for
Advantages for
Back in 1914, over a quarter century ago, a keen-scented engineer with an eye to
the future, discovered a large amount of gypsum deposit about eight miles north and west
of Lewistown at what is the present site of Hanover, and during the next few years a
considerable activity was noticed at that point, and when the smoke cleared away there
stood upon that site a modern cement mill with large capacity, turning out a high grade
product under the brand name of Red Devil cement. As a part of the ldeal Cement
company of Denver, one of the biggest operations in the line in the country, this plant
continued to turn out its quota of tons of cement until about 193 I , when its deposit of
cement making rock seemed to disintegrate and shortly the plant was operating
practically full time in the making of one of the finest plasters from high grade gypsum
rock that it was possible to dine in the country, and it wasn't long before "Hanover
Plaster" was recognizedby the trade as top-notch in quality and possessing just those
ingredients which go to make a good job.
But to go back just a ways. The original idea at the inception of the Hanover
construction was to fumish gypsum rock for the cement and plaster of the ideal company
at Trident, and so Mr. James Bickel, well-known to residents of Lewistown, was sent to
Hanover from the company's plaster plant at Denver to superintend the getting out of this
rock in a proper way and he was accompanied by a Mr. Brown, who assisted him at that
time. Then in 1916 the possibilities of cement manufacture at that point were seen and a

Hanover plant has furnished hig grad plaster and cement products for a quarter-century.

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Back in 1914, over a quarter century ago, a keen-scented engineer with an eye to the future, discovered a large amount of gypsum deposit about eight miles north and west of Lewistown at what is the present site of Hanover, and during the next few years a considerable activity was noticed at that point, and when the smoke cleared away there stood upon that site a modern cement mill with large capacity, turning out a high grade product under the brand name of Red Devil cement. As a part of the Ideal Cement company of Denver, one of the biggest operations in the line in the country, this plant continued to turn out its quota of tons of cement until about 1931, when its deposit of cement making rock seemed to disintegrate and shortly the plant was operating practically full time in the making of one of the finest plasters from high grade gypsum rock that it was possible to dine in the country, and it wasn’t long before “Hanover Plaster” was recognized by the trade as top-notch in quality and possessing just those ingredients which go to make a good job.

Hanover Plant Has Furnished High Grade Plaster and Cement
Quarter-Century
Three Forks Portland Cement Company's Local Plant Has Many
Possible Expansion of its Operations
DEMOCRAT NEWS-DEC. 1940
Products for
Advantages for
Back in 1914, over a quarter century ago, a keen-scented engineer with an eye to
the future, discovered a large amount of gypsum deposit about eight miles north and west
of Lewistown at what is the present site of Hanover, and during the next few years a
considerable activity was noticed at that point, and when the smoke cleared away there
stood upon that site a modern cement mill with large capacity, turning out a high grade
product under the brand name of Red Devil cement. As a part of the ldeal Cement
company of Denver, one of the biggest operations in the line in the country, this plant
continued to turn out its quota of tons of cement until about 193 I , when its deposit of
cement making rock seemed to disintegrate and shortly the plant was operating
practically full time in the making of one of the finest plasters from high grade gypsum
rock that it was possible to dine in the country, and it wasn't long before "Hanover
Plaster" was recognizedby the trade as top-notch in quality and possessing just those
ingredients which go to make a good job.
But to go back just a ways. The original idea at the inception of the Hanover
construction was to fumish gypsum rock for the cement and plaster of the ideal company
at Trident, and so Mr. James Bickel, well-known to residents of Lewistown, was sent to
Hanover from the company's plaster plant at Denver to superintend the getting out of this
rock in a proper way and he was accompanied by a Mr. Brown, who assisted him at that
time. Then in 1916 the possibilities of cement manufacture at that point were seen and a